What kind of life taste does agarwood symbolize?

The ancients liked to taste agarwood, feel its colorful changes through sight and smell, appreciate the rapid changes of the universe in this change, understand the true meaning with their own tranquility in this change, and unify the body and mind with heaven and earth in this change. Modern people like to taste agarwood, through the appreciation of agarwood and the traditional Chinese culture reflected by agarwood, improve their own life style, create exquisite life taste, and improve their quality of life. From ancient times to the present, various religious figures, palace nobles, literati and artists have regarded agarwood as a symbol of high quality.

Agarwood is indispensable in all kinds of scriptures and murals, archaeological excavations, tombs, and literary and artistic works.

For different people, agarwood symbolizes different tastes of life. In the eyes of antique collectors, it may be the embodiment of past civilizations and has immeasurable collection value and economic benefits. In the eyes of religious people, it may be a token given by the gods to mankind, and through its divine power, it can reach the divine will and comprehend the true meaning of all things in the world.

Dignified, quiet, dignified. This can be seen from the use of agarwood in building materials and architectural coatings, such as the famous agarwood pavilion, agarwood fan, and agarwood mountain excavated in Famen Temple, etc., these works of art at that time were created by the most famous craftsmen, so its value is self-evident, and the meaning contained in it is also different.

In the pen of literati and ink writers, many beautiful and gentle poems leap onto the paper, passed down for thousands of years. In their study desks, you can appreciate the scene of cigarette curling. They took incense as their friend, tasted incense, played with incense, fought incense, and composed a poem for it, which shows the love of literati and artists for agarwood at that time.

Through the content of the poems, it is not difficult to find that some are lamenting the beauty of agarwood, some are describing the life scenes at that time, and some are expressing their pursuit and ambition through the scenery and feelings. ‍‍

I don't have so many words with culture and connotation to explain agarwood, I only know that there is another taste and a way of life when it sinks.

From the earliest time agarwood entered this land of China, the nobles simply used it to burn it for worship to their ancestors or to make incense in their houses. But later, due to the pursuit of higher taste, in order to remove the smell of fireworks, it was changed to fire-proof incense, to taste the changes in agarwood spices themselves. Since agarwood is mostly a tribute to pilgrimage in the Western Regions, it is relatively rare, so it is more cherished in use, and a small part is used to make incense when it is compatible with other spices, or it is distilled liquid to make incense, or it is dissolved with ink for thrush makeup.

1. Agarwood has an extremely unique fragrance. The fragrance of agarwood is a fusion of the essence of the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom, and is conceived across the boundary between the sea and the land.

2. Agarwood is a rare treasure, and its value is recognized by the world's five major religions.

3. Agarwood is a sacred object for wealth and treasure, and the benefits of wearing it are endless. Its fragrance is through the three realms, can help the master realize his wishes, a steady stream of wealth into the treasure, avoid evil spirits, far from the villain.

Fourth, agarwood is a magical Chinese medicinal material. "Materia Medica" mentions: The luck of agarwood is only the essence of rain and dew, so it raises the true qi, nourishes the qi, and guards the qi, lifts the water and fire, and the incense is beyond reach.

5. Agarwood is a treasure of feng shui and has an extremely important position in the application of feng shui. The key to Yang House Feng Shui lies in the harmony of Yin and Yang: the so-called Yin and Yang meet, blessing and eternal prosperity, and all things are born.

The agarwood tree is pure and yang, and it can pass through the three worlds: it is used for feng shui to flush yin and yang, and then it can become vitality, such as the principle of Tai Chi, which can be the wonder of the language.

6. Agarwood is a culture. It has a strong historical background and is the palm treasure of the emperors and nobles of the past dynasties.

7. Agarwood is a symbol of status. Its wearer is low-key, the appearance is not obvious, those who do not understand think that they wear ordinary wooden bracelets, and those who really know will be attracted and impressed by your inner quality. Agarwood is a high-value object that is generally accepted by high-end social groups.

In recent years, the first level of agarwood is rising higher and higher, not only because its resources are getting less and less, but also because the efficacy and role of agarwood are very powerful, covering all aspects of life, from clothing, food, housing and transportation to health maintenance, you can see the figure of agarwood. So what are the effects and functions of agarwood?

It can be said that agarwood, as one of the traditional Chinese medicines commonly used in clinical practice, has pharmacological effects such as antispasmodic, sedative, analgesic, antiasthmatic, antihypertensive, anti-arrhythmic, anti-myocardial ischemia, antibacterial, etc., and is widely used in digestive, respiratory, urinary system diseases, etc., with definite efficacy. So in life, what are the health regimens of agarwood? The first is to smell the incense, it has a history of thousands of years, no matter for what purpose, whether it is a sacrifice or a life of Yaxing, the charm of agarwood can bring people a stable and soothing mood, let people get rid of depression and irritability, insist on use, but also effectively improve the quality of sleep.

However, it should be noted that the incense must be pure and natural, and the finished incense containing chemical additives or artificial agarwood incense powder and incense blocks should be avoided as much as possible.

The volatile oils in agarwood have a calming effect on the central nervous system of the brain and have a certain effect on prolonging sleep time. In the clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine related to agarwood, the most common is the most common for stomach diseases. It has a significant effect on nausea and bloating caused by stomach pain or stomach discomfort.

Agarwood warms the kidneys and connects the heart, especially for the symptoms of sleepiness, fatigue, lack of energy, hot flashes and night sweats caused by kidney yin deficiency. Agarwood can also be used for external application, it can disperse butanone, and at the same time it also has a certain effect on athlete's foot.

The second is to drink agarwood, which has a long history of soaking agarwood in water, as early as the Song Dynasty. Agarwood soaking water does not have the bitter taste common in other traditional Chinese medicines, but is light and sweet, and its brewing methods are also rich and diverse, not only can be used alone, but also can be used in combination with other herbs and tea. However, the temperature should not be too high, warm water is sufficient, and patients with fever such as high blood pressure and diabetes should not use it.

The effect of agarwood can make people sleep peacefully, make people smell better, relax the mind, and then fall asleep more easily, and the fragrance of agarwood is very strong.

The real agarwood, the taste will not disappear, as long as it is not pulped, the taste will change with the temperature and humidity, and it will have a fragrance for 10,000 years and will never disappear!

The agarwood flavor is pungent, bitter, and warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians. It has the effect of relieving pain, warming the stomach and relieving nausea, reducing breath and asthma. It can be used for cold condensation and qi stagnation, chest and abdomen distension and pain, and is often used with black medicine, betel nut, wood incense, etc.

It is also often used for stomach cold, vomiting, hiccups, and those who do not heal for a long time, and is often used with cloves, white cardamom, perilla, etc. It is also often used for deficiency and asthma caused by deficiency and cold in the lower yuan, and is often used in the same way as aconite, cinnamon, psoralen, etc.; It can also be used for coughing and asthma, and is often used with Suzi, Qianhu and Magnolia.

Agarwood is known as the five flavors of the six countries, which means that the agarwood in different production areas will have its own different fragrances, and the great changes are their own characteristics. Incense is an art of tasting and analyzing the changes in the taste of incense. Among them, the fragrance of agarwood is the most changeable, and it is very precious and rare.

1.Sweetness. Since agarwood is called "honey fragrance", sweetness naturally bears the brunt, and sweetness can be described as the most important sensory enjoyment of agarwood. The sweetness of different agarwood is also different: those who have a clear sweet taste will produce a sense of tranquility while sweetening, if you feel the direction of the aroma carefully, you will feel the fragrance flow from the nasal cavity into the quiet and straight up, there is a kind of sweetness rushing to the top of the head to reach the Parkway, which makes people feel a pleasant feeling of being refreshed immediately after smelling; The sweet and turbid taste is more honey, which makes people feel that the fragrance is calm and steady, and the sweetness is mellow, and the fragrance does not go up after entering the nose, but condenses in the back of the nasal cavity, which has the effect of making people feel good in the mouth and calm the mind.

2.Milky scent.

Agarwood generally has different degrees of milky flavor and is often accompanied by sweetness. Milky scent, also known as the "milky taste" of agarwood, is a soft and rich oily aroma. Generally speaking, the milk flavor of agarwood produced in Indonesia is more turbid, more milky and faty, and more rich and heavy; The milk taste of domestic agarwood and Vietnamese agarwood is relatively light, and the milk flavor often has the mellow aroma of cooked nuts.

3.Refreshing taste.

Agarwood has a cool taste, which is generally accompanied by sweetness, similar to the refreshing aroma of mint. If you taste it carefully, you will feel the fragrance entering the nasal cavity and producing a fresh coolness at the base of the tongue and the upper part of the throat, which makes people feel relieved of their nose. Sweet and cool blend with each other, and the cool taste is hidden behind the sweetness, which is quiet and refreshing, and is lightly reflected, giving people a pleasant sense of tasting fragrance.

4.Praline.

Generally fragrant, it will show a strong nut smell during the tail fragrance period, and this aroma will not disperse in the nose for a long time, which makes people have a feeling of great appetite. Generally, it is difficult to smell the nut smell of agarwood without heating in the furnace, but there are exceptions, such as the Qi Nan produced in Hui'an East District, which can also smell the nut smell at room temperature, which has a faint medicinal smell, so it is also called "ginseng taste".

5.Floral.

The floral scent of agarwood is a combination of the "cool" and "sweet" flavors of agarwood, and is named because the aroma resembles the fresh fragrance of flowers, sometimes resembling the scent of grass. Agarwood produced in Hong Kong, China has this unique fragrance.

6.Pungent numbness.

The pungent sensation in the aroma of agarwood generally appears in high-quality agarwood or chess. Pinnacle is not strictly an olfactory sensation, it is closer to a tactile sensation. When you chew agarwood well, there will be a spicy feeling in your mouth that spreads, and Qi Nan is even worse.

Good agarwood, especially Qi Nan, will emit a special smell with a slight sense of pungent numbness after heating, which is often called "chess rhyme" by incense friends. This pungent sensation is also an important sign to distinguish good agarwood from Qi Nan, among which the agarwood produced in Hainan is famous for its strong pungent and numb feeling.

Domestic agarwood. It is also known as agarwood incense, agarwood, ear incense, upper incense, white wood incense, Hainan agarwood, daughter incense, Guan incense, Lingnan agarwood incense. A resinous heartwood from the white wood aquilariasinensis (lour) gilg of the family Reichaceae.

Soil agarwood is divided into four specifications: No. 1 incense (heavy and fragrant), No. 2 incense (strong and fragrant), No. 3 incense (looser and better fragrance), and No. 4 incense (floating pine, light fragrance). Its shape is irregular, the surface is mostly rotten wood-like uneven, there are knife marks, occasionally holes, and black-brown resin and yellow-white wood markings can be seen. Imported agarwood is also known as agarwood incense, swallow incense, Penglai incense, dense incense, zhilan incense, cinnamon incense, etc. (the above is the name of the literature).

A resinous heartwood from agarwood (Aquilaria agal- locharoxb). It is mainly produced in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Thailand and other places. The agarwood produced in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore is known as Xinzhou incense, which is of the best quality, and the fragrance is quiet and long-lasting.

The agarwood produced in Vietnam is commonly known as Hoi An incense, the quality is slightly inferior, the burning fragrance is very good, with a sweet taste, but it cannot last

Agarwood has many "names", such as earth sinking, water sinking, ant sinking, insect leakage, etc. They come from the traditional classification of aging.

In ancient times, incense pickers mainly looked for small pieces of agarwood that had fallen, or the remaining agarwood trees that had been eaten by insects, or the parts of the decaying agarwood trees that had not rotted. This is the earliest way to harvest incense. When some agarwood is found in water or mud, it is called "water sinking"; Some of the diggings in the soil are called "soil traps"; There is also an "inverted shelf" found directly from an agarwood tree lying on the ground

These names indicate not only the different places of discovery, but also the differences in age and aroma, and are the culmination of accumulated experience.

However, these modern names only serve as "names" for agarwood, as it has been learned that these "names" do not accurately describe the aging process of agarwood. A piece of agarwood often undergoes complex environmental changes during the aging process. For example, "water sinking" may not always be in the water, it may also go through the aging stage in the soil, or it may alternate between water and soil environments; "Worm drains" can also fall off or fall off and then be buried in the soil or fall into water to solidify.

So, these rankings are just names.

Still, classifying agarwood with "raw incense" and "ripe incense" is valuable even today and is a good way to classify it. Even if the subdivision in the aging process is not necessarily scientific and reasonable, there is indeed a big difference between agarwood with a long aging time and agarwood with slipknots.

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